It had been two weeks since my job in New York and man did it feel good to just sit back and relax in Tree Hill. Since the guys, myself and Rachel all had a month off, we figured we each would take a week off to ourselves then spend the other three weeks together at our overly large house back home. Yeah I know what you're thinking; they work together and live together, man that just has to be tough. Well in reality, its amazingly simple, especially since we're like one giant family. I mean its as simple as simple can be with five guys and a girl under one roof. We have rules in place to make sure nothing happens. One example is that we each take turns cooking well except for Nate because he keeps setting the smoke detector off. Another one is that no one messes with Rachel when one of her shows is on. Jake tried that once and lets just say, he couldn't hear out of his right hear for the next week thanks to Rachel and a bullhorn. The major rule for us though is that, if someone messes with one of us, they mess with all of us.
We only have one more week left before its back to work and its great just eating, drinking and partying with everyone. It seems like we haven't had this much fun together since before we all went our separate ways after high school. I start to think about all the fun we had in high school and just watching the flames of our fire pit dance. The sound of every ones laughter just fades as I start to zone out and for some strange reason my mind travels to a certain reddish brunette with a face of a goddess. I don't even hear Rachel's footsteps coming up behind me until her hand is on my shoulder. I look up and I can instantly tell by the knowing smile and raised eyebrow that she found the note. I let out a sigh as she sits down with a beer cocks her head to the side. "So Luke, who's Brooke and why did she write her number on a napkin, along with the words: He's not my boyfriend?" Fuck, there goes any semblance of peace and quiet I was going to have for the next few nights. "She's just a girl I meet while I was in New York on my last assignment." My brother Nathan decides now its' his turn to but in. "Wait, you never told me you meet a girl there and you got her number. Did you sleep with her?" "No Nate, I didn't sleep with her, I just meet her at the party I was at my last night there. Besides she was with some guy and I had more important things to worry about." "Guys, I'm sure Lucas had a perfectly good reason for not telling us". Thank you mouth, I would owe him but I know that it isn't going to stop the questions. "So wait dawg, you got this girls number and you didn't sleep with her? What the hell did you do?" "I just talked to her, she thought I was some up and coming author thanks to Rachel's brilliant cover" "Hey, I think it was a dam smart one, and besides, you really should write a book about your life." I groan and roll my eyes as they keep on badgering me about who Brooke is and what she looks like. And through all there questions I notice Jake hasn't said a thing yet and that can't be good. "So Luke, if you have her number, you must have made an impression on her, but the question myself and I'm sure the rest of us want to know is; Why the FUCK haven't you called her yet you idiot?" Got to love Jake for his bluntness and how he can make you seem so utterly stupid in a matter of seconds. I lean back in my chair and take a swig of beer. Why haven't I called her?
After the wonderful night of drinking and me trying to doge questions from everyone on Brooke, I was awoken with a splitting headache and a very loud ringing noise. I reach up and grab my clock and chuck it out my window as I get up and stumble out of my room. Once in the living I hear Rachel puking in the bathroom and Nathan just getting up, well more like fall out of bed. Skills is still snoring, while mouth is cuddled up on the couch with his bottle of vodka. I look around for Jake and that's when I see him stumble out of his room and scratch his head. We both look each other just as Nates door and the bathroom door open to reveal a very hung over Nathan and well a very scary looking Rachel. The four of us say in unison "That was a fun night." I start making us coffee as Jake starts getting everything ready to make breakfast.
Once breakfast is ready, we wake mouth and skills up; who for some unknown reason don't have hangovers. We all sit down and eat and relax as we go over the agenda for the rest of our relaxing time off. We just finish when our house phone starts ringing. We look at each other and groan as we realize the only one who could be calling is work. I reluctantly answer the phone and put it on speakerphone. Sadly we guess right because it's Keegan and he has another job for us. "Good Morning my favorite crew. How are you all?" he gets a group groan and he just laughs. "AHAHAHA. I figured you'd all be hung over or a little worse for wear. Enjoying your time off as much as I think you are?" Rachel being the worse out of all of us decides to make this a short call so we can get it over with. "What do you want Keegan?" "Well you see we have a job for you guys." We all look at each other as we start to wonder what the job is. "What kind of job is it?" "Well Jake I'm glad you asked. You see some very wealthy and important people have been getting death threats and such. There was also an attempt on theses peoples children." "So you want us to find out who is sending the threats and take care of them?" "No Nate, not quite that. They want the police and FBI to do that. You'll be providing…" That's where I decide to cut him off. "OH FUCKING HELL NO! We don't do babysitting work for a bunch of rich snobs. You know we hate bodyguard work." "Look Luke, I don't want you to do this just as much as you do, but these people are very important and have some powerful connections. "So what the fuck does that have to wit us?" "Well Skills you see they happen to be friends with General. Durham, and they requested the best we could offer. So that's you guys and girl." "Well, can you at least tell us who the fuck we are "babysitting"?" "Sorry Jake, you'll find out when you get to New York City, tomorrow morning. Now enjoy the rest of your break." With that the phone call was over. We all just looked at each other; well it was nice to have some semblance of a break. We finished eating and cleaned up as we each went back to our rooms and packed.
Once our packing was done, we loaded up all of our equipment into the cars and drove to the airfield. That's one of the many perks they all enjoyed about being a party of Trinity, they still held their military ranks, clearances, and could get almost any base they wanted to. Once at the airfield, they boarded a Chinook and departed for New York City. Everyone slept for most of the trip with the exception for me. For some reason I still couldn't get the image of Brooke out of my head. Pulling out her number from my jacket pocket and looking at it. I debated calling her once I looked at my watch and saw it wasn't too late. We could get together for dinner or coffee. I mean I'm not on an assignment, yet so technically, it wouldn't be breaking a rule to get to know her and see where it goes. Once I feel us touch down I pull out my cell and punch in her numbers.
She doesn't pick up so I hang up and start to unload everything with my. Just as we're finishing, my phone starts to go off with an unkown number on the screen so I answer it. "Hello? Lucas here." "Hey, um this number called my cell before, and I was wondering how you have my number?" I gave out a slight chuckle "well if this is Brooke which I'm assuming it is, I have your number because you gave it to me at the party a few weeks back. It's Lucas." "Oh, Hey Lucas. I was wondering when you were gonna call me. Are you back in New York?" "uh, yeah im back for a meeting with my publisher. I was um wondering if maybe you wanted to grab a drink or something?" Yes, even though I can chase terrorists across the Middle East and take on five guys with ease but when it comes to a girl I actually might like, I can't handle it. I mean all the rest of the girls I've meet or hooked up with were just me having fun on my job, but Brooke is different. "Yeah, id love to meet you for a drink but I promised my friends id go out with them, I'll tell you what, why don't you come out with us and I can introduce you to the rest of my friends." "sure but is it alright if I bring my friends along then too, I hate to leave them hanging" "Oh of Coarse, the more the merrier." "alright, thanks. So where shall we meet you?" "Oh there's this new club opening up called the Attic, why don't you meet us there around 10." "Sure, we'll see you then." I turn around with a huge grin on my face as I see everyone face says the same thing: where are we going? I shake my head and chuckle. "alright, once we're at the hotel, get changed into something nice and we're all going out to a club and you can meet Brooke and her friends with me." This got a loud cheer from the group. Oh this is going to be one interesting night.